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Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Flashcards

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Acceptance Criteria

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A criteria which must be met for the requirement to be accepted.

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Architecture

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Design, structure and behavior of the current and future states of a structure

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Adaptive Approach

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An approach where the solution evolves based on learning and discovery.

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Artifact

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Any solution-relevant object that is created as part of business analysis effort.

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Assumption

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An influencing factor that is believed to be true but has not been confirmed to be accurate

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Behavioral business rule

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A business rule that places an obligation(or prohibition) on conduct, action, practice, or procedure; also Operative Rule.

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Benchmarking

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A comparison of a decision, process, service or system to those of leading peers to identify opportunities for improvement

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Brainstorming

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A team activity to generate ideas rapidly and uncritical generation of ideas

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  1. Business Analysis information
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Any kind of information at any level of details that is used as an Input and output of business analysis work.

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  1. Business Analysis Package
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A document, presentation, or other collection of text, matrices, diagrams and models, representing business analysis information.

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  1. Business Analyst
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Any person who performs Business Analysis, no matter their job title or organizational role.

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  1. Business Analysis Approach
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The set of processes, rules, guidelines, heuristics, and activities that are used to perform business analysis in a specific context.

P R G H A

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  1. Business Analysis communication plan
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A description of types of communication the ba will perform during business analysis, the recipients of those communications, the form and frequency of those communications

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Business Analysis effort

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The scope of activities a BA is engaged in during the life cycle of an initiative.

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  1. Business Analysis Plan
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A description of the planned activities a ba will execute in order to perform the ba work in a specific initiative

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Business Architecture

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The Design, Structure and behavior of the current and future states of an enterprise to provide a common understanding of the organization.

D S B

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Business Case

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A justification for a course of action based on the benefits to be realized by using the proposed solution, as compared to cost, effort and other considerations to acquire and live with that solution.

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Business decision

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A decision taken based on business rules, strategy and consensus in response to the defined points in a business process

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Business Goal

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A state or condition that an organization is seeking to achieve

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Business Need

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A problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be addressed

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Business Policy

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A directive that controls and influences actions of an enterprise

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Business Process

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An end to end set of activities.

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Business Process management

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A management discipline that determines how manual and automated processes are created, modified , cancelled and governed

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Business process re-engineering

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Rethinking and redesigning the business process to improve performance.

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Business Rule

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A specific, practicable, testable directive that is under the control of business and that serves as a criterion for guiding behavior.

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Capability

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the set of activities the enterprise performs, the knowledge it has, the product and service it provides, the function it supports, the method it uses

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Cause and effect diagram

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Same as Fish bone diagram

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Change

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The act of transformation in response to need.

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Change Agent

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One who is a catalyst for change

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Chane Control

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Controlling changes to requirements and designs so that the impact of requested changes is understood and agreed to before changes are implemented

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Change Management

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Planned activities, tools and techniques to address the human side of change during a change initiative,

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Change Stratey

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A plan to move from current state to future state

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Change Team

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A team comprising to implement the change

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Checklist

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A standard set of quality elements that reviewers use for requirement verification

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COTS

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A pre packaged solution available in the marketplace

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Customer

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A stakeholder who uses or may use products produced by the enterprise

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Decision analysis

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An approach to examine possible decison making alternative and making an optimal decision

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Decomposition

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A technique that subdivides a problem into its component parts in order to facilitate analysis and understanding of those components.

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Design

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A usable representation of solution

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Document analysis

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An examination of documentation of existing system in order to elicit requirements

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Elicitation

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Act of iterative extraction of information from stakeholders

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End user

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A stakeholder who interacts with system directly

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ER diagram

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A graphical representation of entities relevant to a chosen problem

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Evaluation

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Systematic and objective assessment of a solution against its objectives

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Event

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An occurrence to which organisation unit system or process must respond

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Evolutionary prototype

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A prototype that is continuously modified and updated on n response to feedback

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Experiment

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To test a hypothesis or demonstrate a known fact

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External interface

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An interaction that is outside the proposed solution.can be hardware, software or human

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Facilitation

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the art of leading and encouraging people through systematic efforts to achieve objectives.

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Feasibility Study

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An evaluation of proposed alternative if they are possible

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Feature

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A distinguished characteristic of a solution that implements a cohesive set of requirements. and which delivers value to the stakeholders

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Fishbone diagram

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diagramming technique used to represent cause and effect analysis

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Iteration

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A single instance of progressive cycles of analysis, development, testing or execution.

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Knowledge area

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An area of expertise that include several specific business analysis tasks.

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Lessons learned process

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A process improvement technique used to learn about and improve on a process or project. what worked and what didnt work, what could be learned.

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Matrix

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A textural form of modelling used to represent information that can be categorized in a table format.

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Metadata

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A description of data to help understand how to use that data

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Methodology

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A body of knowledge, techniques, rules and working concepts used to solve a problem

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Metric

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A quantifiable level of an indicator.

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Model

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A representation and simplification of reality developed to convey information to a specific audience to support analysis, communication and understanding

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Monitoring

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how well a solution is implemented vs expected results.

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Need

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A problem or opportunity to be addressed

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Non functional requirements

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A type of requirement that describes the performance or quality attributes a solution must meet.

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Observation

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Studying and analyzing one or more stakeholders in their work environment in order to elicit requirements.

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OLAP

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Online Analytical processing : A business intelligence approach that allows users to analyze large amounts of data from different points of view.

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Operational support

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A stakeholder who is responsible for day to day management and maintenance of system or product.

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organizational capability

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A function inside an organization made up of components such as processes, technologies and information and used by organizations to achieve their goals

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organization modelling

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The analysis technique used to describe roles, responsibilities and reporting structure that exist within an enterprise.

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Peer review

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a formal or informal review of work product to identify errors or work opportunities for improvement

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Predictive approach

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An approach where planning and baselines are established early in the life cycle of the initiative in order to maximize control and minimize risk.

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Prioritization

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Determining the relative importance of a set of items in order to determine the order in which they will be addressed.

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Process

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a set of activities designed to accomplish a specific objective by taking one or more defined inputs and turning them into defined outputs

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Process Model

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A set of diagrams and supporting information about process that could influence the process. Some process models are used to simulate the performance of process.

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Product

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A solution that is the result of an initiative

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Product backlog

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A set of user stories, requirements, or features that have been identified as candidates for potential implementaton, prioritized and estimated.

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Product vision statement

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a brief statement or paragraph that describes the goals of the solution and how it supports the strategy of the organization or enterprise.

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Project

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a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result

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Project Manager

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A stakeholder responsible for managing work required to deliver a solution that meets a business need while balancing project constraints, including scope, budget, schedule, resources, quality and risk.

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project scope

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the work that must be performed to deliver a product, service or result with specified features and functions.

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POC

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A model created to validate the design of a solution without modelling the appearance, materials used in the creation of work or processes and workflows ultimately used by the stakeholders

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Prototype

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A simulated approximation of solution

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Quality

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the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills needs

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Questionnaire

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A set of defined questions, with a choice of answers, used to collect information from respondents.

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RACI Matrix

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Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed Matrix

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Repositiory

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a real or virtual facility where all information on a specific topic is stored and available for retrieval.

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RFI

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Information about vendors capabilities and any other information relevant to potential upcoming procurement.

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RFP

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A requirements document issued when an organization is seeking a formal proposal from vendors

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